DAYTONA BEACH — It almost seemed the judge had to sentence two individuals instead of the single, 43-year-old Port Orange woman before him Thursday, sitting in a packed courtroom. Cindy Sue Gilliland pleaded guilty in July to manslaughter in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Bradley Stradtman, 39, in her home on Aug. 11, 2010. She claimed he punched and beat her, and she was defending herself and her 11-year-old son. But who was she that night, when she turned the knife on the man who told relatives he loved and planned to marry her? Was she the impeccable employee, loving mother and even-tempered woman relatives and friends described? Or a person who took Stradtman's paycheck instead of giving it to his children and stabbed him because he wouldn't leave when she told him to? The answer never seemed clear even after a sentencing hearing that lasted from early in the morning Thursday until well in the evening. In the end, Circuit Judge R. Michael Hutcheson sentenced Gilliland to 15 years drug offender probation, rather than the 15 years in prison Stradtman's bereaved father asked for, or the minimum Gilliland's friends requested. Shortly before the sentencing, Gilliland turned tearfully toward the family members of her former boyfriend, who had lived with her briefly after claiming to have lost his apartment. She told the men, women, teens and elderly who occupied every wooden bench on the state's side of the courtroom: “I wasn't planning on hurting him in any way, shape or form and I didn't expect him to hurt me.” “I understand ya'lls pain because I have felt it every day, too.”Gilliland said, her voice breaking. “I did love your son. And he was a good man, I know he was. I pray every day and every night to help us through this, and I hope to see him at the gates of heaven and walk through together.” Gilliland is the ex-wife of Daytona Beach City Commissioner Rob Gilliland. Stradtman leaves behind two children: Sarah Stradtman, 17, and Steele Stradtman, 15